Chris Kraus, Sylvère Lotringer (eds.): Hatred of Capitalism: A Reader (2001)
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“Compiled in 2001 to commemorate the passing of an era, Hatred of Capitalism brings together highlights of Semiotext(e)’s most beloved and prescient works. Founded by French theorist and critic Sylvère Lotringer as a scholarly journal in 1974, Semiotext(e) quickly took on the mission of melding French theory with the American art world and punk underground. Its Foreign Agents, Native Agents, Active Agents and Double Agents imprints have brought together thinkers and writers as diverse as Gilles Deleuze, Assata Shakur, Bob Flanagan, Paul Virillio, Kate Millet, Jean Baudrillard, Michelle Tea, William S. Burroughs, Eileen Myles, Ulrike Meinhof, and Fanny Howe. In Hatred of Capitalism, editors Kraus and Lotringer bring these people together in the same volume for the first time.”
Assistant editors: Shannon Durbin and Tessa Laird
Publisher Semiotext(e), Los Angeles, 2001
Double Agents series
ISBN 1584350121, 9781584350125
421 pages
Review: Brian Dillon (Mute, 2002).
Interview with editor (Leo Edelstein, Log, 2001).
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Comment (0)CrimethInc: Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook (2004)
Filed under book | Tags: · anarchism, collaboration, cultural resistance, independent media, social movements
Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook is an anarchist book released by the CrimethInc. collective in December 2004. It provides information on and strategies for direct action useful to activists and dissenters. There are sections on forming affinity groups, organizing demonstrations, stenciling, black blocs, sabotage, squatting, and more personal topics like mental health and “Supporting Survivors of Domestic Violence”. It was written over a span of three years by dozens of radical collectives from all over the world working together.
The title alludes to The Anarchist Cookbook, a controversial book from 1971. CrimethInc. denounces the earlier book, saying it was “not composed or released by anarchists, not derived from anarchist practice, not intended to promote freedom and autonomy or challenge repressive power–and was barely a cookbook, as the recipes in it are notoriously unreliable. At best, it was a fraud, a spoof; at worst, an attempt to undermine the legitimacy of anarchist practice, and cause readers to injure themselves. The recent movie by the same name is equally embarrassing, not so much to anarchists as to the industry that produced it.”
Publisher CrimethInc. (December 2004)
ISBN 0-9709101-4-2
624 pages
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Joanne Richardson (ed.): An@rchitexts: Voices from the Global Digital Resistance (2005)
Filed under book | Tags: · activism, cultural resistance, floss, gift economy, mass media, net art, networks, social movements, tactical media
“An@rchitexts brings together a global mix of voices from the new ‘underground’: engaged artists intervening in local struggles on the streets, media producers promoting technologies based on sharing and cooperation rather than privatization and competition, activists participating in global networks built through electronic democracies and decentralized forms of cooperation, and extraordinary people creating an alternative society through their everyday practices.
As a matter of principle An@rchitexts reflects the first-hand perspective of those involved at the point of production, not distanced reflections by critics, specialists, or armchair theorists.”
Publisher Autonomedia, 2005
ISBN 1570271429, 9781570271427
368 pages
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